Cleve Backseter, in the early 70's discovered that plants react to thought when he was a polygraph expert with the FBI. Published a book by the name of "The Secret Life of Plants". Proved that even double blind studies can be flawed because even simple plants would react to events in the other room, even if the experimenters did not know what was going on in the other room, and would react to the experimenters thoughts.
Marshall Barbara Liles wrote: > What is the Backster effect? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Marshall Dudley <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 11:12 PM > Subject: Re: CS>Unsupported denials & claims-Placebo effect > > > I think that the Backster effect shows that even in lab surroundings, you > really > > can't be sure. Since it can occur with plants, it might with animals as > well. > > > > Marshall > > > > [email protected] wrote: > > > > > > On a non-related note, I've been seeing the idea float around that the > > > > placebo effect does not apply with animals. This is markedly > untrue...in a > > > > > > > > laboratory setting it is likely true that the placebo effect > > > > will not manifest in animals, but in a home setting it very well > could. > > > > > > > (Digest V102 #508) > > > Now THERE'S theoretical proof; markedly to likely to could. > > > jr > > > > > > -- > > > The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. > > > > > > Instructions for unsubscribing may be found at: http://silverlist.org > > > > > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > > > > > > Silver-list archive: http://escribe.com/health/thesilverlist/index.html > > > > > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > > > >
